Matched Betting Reload Offers

For a lot of people, when they first get started, Matched Betting seems almost too good to be true. They’ll complete a few sign up offers, make their first profits, and be wildly excited by all the opportunities this side hustle has to offer.

But then there comes a point when they’ve completed most of the available sign up offers, and they’re wondering what to do next.

The answer is reload offers - regular offers made by bookies to existing customers. These aren’t usually as generous as the sign up offers designed to get new customers through the door, but they still offer great value to matched bettors.

By completing these offers regularly, you can make steady, ongoing profits through your Matched Betting.

If you’re new to Matched Betting, you might find that some of the new techniques and strategies involved are a little tricky to get your head around - but don’t worry!

We’ll talk you through all the common types of reload offer and exactly how they work, so that you don’t run into any trouble when it comes to completing them for yourself.

Matched Betting Basics

If you don’t already know what Matched Betting is, your best bet is to check out our beginners’ guide, which will take you through everything you need to know.

But we’ll give you a quick rundown here as a reminder as well.

In essence, Matched Betting is the strategy of betting both for and against the same outcome. So for example, you might bet both that Manchester United win a match, and also that they don’t win a match.

When you combine this technique with the many promotions bookies offer to lure in customers, you can end up making a guaranteed profit (so long as you follow the instructions correctly).

For example, you might see an offer where you have to place a £10 bet (known as a qualifying bet) to receive a £10 free bet. If you match both bets, you can roughly break even on the first bet, and then use your free bet to make a guaranteed profit.

We call offers like this ‘Bet & Get’ offers, and most sign up offers work on this basis. However, there are also tons of other types of offer we can take advantage of through Matched Betting.

Some of them are a bit more complicated (and a few are a lot more complicated), but as you gain more experience of Matched Betting you’ll find you become much more comfortable and confident with all sorts of techniques, with the help of our handy guides.

Getting Started With Reload Offers

If you agree to receive marketing communications when you sign up with new bookies (which we strongly recommend), it won’t be long before you start seeing reload offers appearing in your inbox.

There’s no reason not to start doing these immediately, so long as you understand how they work. They typically won’t be as generous as the initial sign up offers you work through, but they’ll still contribute to your profits and gain you valuable experience.

When you start to run out of sign up offers, though, you’ll need to be systematic about completing reload offers if you want to maintain a steady profits.

First things first, we’ll take you through the most common types of reload offer you’re likely to encounter.

Types Of Reload Offer

Bet & Get Offers

This is the very simplest form of reload offer - bet a certain amount (sometimes on a specific sport or event) to receive a free bet.

If you’ve been exclusively following the sign up guides through Outplayed so far, you will have to get used to using the Oddsmatcher manually to track down suitable selections. But it’s very straightforward, with filters for pretty much everything you might need, and you’ll be flying through bet & gets before you know it!

You’ll also come across slightly more complex variations on a standard bet & get, where you might have to place a specific type of bet, or you might not receive a standard free bet. Some of the most common are as follows:

• Bet builders. A bet builder is a bet incorporating multiple selections from the same event - for example, you might bet that team A wins, that both teams score, and that there are at least 4 goals in the match. 
  
  Unfortunately, bet builders can’t be found on the standard oddsmatcher, meaning that you’ll have to work out your back and lay bets manually (our bet builder helper will give you a hand with identifying combinations that can work with a lay bet). 
  
  Outplayed Pro members, however, have access to our new Bet Builder Finder, which makes it orders of magnitude easier to take advantage of bet builder offers.
  

• Accas (accumulators). Somewhat similar to a bet builder, except that your multiples bet must include selections from across more than one match. So for example, you might bet that Chelsea, Liverpool and Bournemouth all win their upcoming matches. 
  
  You can use the Smarkets multiples lay feature to manually create your own back and lay bets for accas, or alternatively try out our Acca Catcher, which makes it even more profitable to take advantage of acca offers.

• Free spins. Instead of a free bet, you might receive free spins as a reward. The downside of this is that there’s no guarantee you’ll win anything at all, especially from a relatively small number of free spins, meaning you could be down your qualifying loss. 
  
  However, that doesn’t mean that the offer isn’t worth doing. On average you can expect to receive a certain percentage return from free spins (usually somewhere around 95% of the nominal value of the spins - this figure is known as the return to player, or RTP). 
  
  While you’re unlikely to see precise returns of this amount, if you do this kind of offer regularly enough you’re likely to end up in profit overall, so long as the offer itself has a positive expected value.

Refund If Offers

Refund If offers give you a bonus if something specific happens. For example, you might receive a £10 free bet if your bet loses (or sometimes if it wins).

To guarantee a profit from this type of offer, we can use the Bonus Lock-In Calculator, which allows us to work out the optimal stakes to ensure a profit regardless of the outcome of our bet.

Racing Refunds

Racing refunds are slightly more complicated offers, and they can be somewhat intimidating if you haven’t tried them before.

Rather than receiving a bonus if your bet loses, you receive a bonus (or sometimes cash) if your horse comes in within a certain number of places, say, 2nd or 3rd place.

To take advantage of this kind of offer, we would place a bet on a particular horse to win (ideally a close match on the Oddsmatcher), and then place a lay bet both on it winning and on the number of places that correspond to the offer.

Our racing refund calculator does all the hard work of figuring out the correct stakes for each lay bet, and lets you know what your eventual profit will be.

Price Boosts

Price boosts are a super straightforward way of profiting from a matched bet. Bookies will have odds boosts advertised pretty much every day - and if a boost makes the odds higher than those at the betting exchange, you can place a single matched bet and make an immediate profit.

How To Find Reload Offers?

There are a few ways to track down reload offers, some of them rather easier than others.

• Marketing communications. We recommend accepting marketing emails and texts from bookies, because they’ll often send you reload offers directly. It can definitely be a pain to receive shedloads of emails each day, though, so it’s a good idea to use a dedicated email address for Matched Betting to avoid cluttering your main email accounts.

• Manual checks. It takes more work, but you can scour bookie websites for reload offers. Bookies often have repeat offers weekly, which gives you a good indication of likely bookies to try at certain times. There’s no denying that this way can be a bit of a chore though.

• Outplayed membership. Outplayed members have access to our daily list of reload offers, shown below.

We do all the hard work of checking for promotions and compile a list of the best available each day on our Top Sports Reloads page. Each guide is complete with instructions for how to do them and any potential pitfalls to be aware of (such as sneaky terms and conditions).

All in all, an Outplayed membership is definitely the most efficient way to ensure you can profit from all the best reload offers out there each day.

How Much Can I Make From Reload Offers?

This is perhaps the most common question we see from people transitioning into reload offers, for obvious reasons.

The answer is that it depends to a great extent on how much time you’re willing and able to put into Matched Betting.

Our members are typically able to make between £300 and £1000 a month from sports reload offers if they can dedicate a reasonable amount of time to Matched Betting, especially at the weekends.

But even if you’re pushed for time, you shouldn’t find it too tricky to make £100-£200 per month with only an hour or two to spare each week.

Casino And More

It’s possible to significantly increase those amounts by branching out into other types of offer.

Once you’ve got to grips with sports reloads, it’s very worthwhile to look into casino offers.

We should make clear that these offers won’t guarantee you a profit, so there will be some risk in completing them. If you’ve got a small bankroll, or if you’ve ever had problems with gambling addiction, it’s probably best to steer clear of casino.

However, the offers we recommend all offer positive EV - meaning that, on average, you can expect to end up in profit. Diamond Outplayed members have access to all our casino sign up and reload offers, plus handy casino tools to help you make the most of them.

You can also consider checking out more advanced types of offer. Again, these won’t guarantee you a profit - but completing them on an ongoing basis means you have a very high chance of ending up making decent, steady profits.

For a full breakdown of each type of offer, take a look at the linked guides - but here’s a quick explanation of the main advanced offers and strategies you can try:

• Extra Places. Bookies regularly run offers where, rather than the standard number of paid places in a horse race, one or more extra places will be paid out. So for example, instead of paying three places, the bookie might pay four. 
  
  Therefore, if we place an each way bet, and lay both the win and the original number of places, we have a chance of winning both our back and lay bets if the horse lands in that extra place. 
  
  You can use Outplayed’s Extra Place Catcher (available to Platinum and Diamond members) or our Extra Place Master (available to Pro members) to identify suitable selections for Extra Place offers. Although you won’t be guaranteed a profit on each bet, you’ve got a good chance of making fantastic profits in the long run from these offers.

• 2UPs. Quite a few bookies have ‘early payout’ or ‘2UP’ offers going. These mean that a bookie will pay out your football bet early if your team is 2 goals ahead - even if they fail to win the match. This means that we have another opportunity to win both our back and our lay bets if this happens. 
  
  Of course, it’s pretty rare for a 2 goal lead to turn into a draw or a loss - but it does happen, and our 2UP Master (available to Outplayed Pro members) identifies matches that offer the best value and the highest chance of a turnaround from a 2 goal lead.

• Lucky 15s. This is definitely a strategy best used by experienced matched bettors - but once you really know what you’re doing, it can make for excellent profits. Lucky 15s are a type of multiples horse racing bet that has the potential for huge payouts if some or all of your four horses win or place in their races. 
  
  The Outplayed Lucky Finder (available to Pro members) tracks down combinations of horses for Lucky 15 bets where the chances of at least some of your horses winning or placing are higher than the odds would imply. This means that you’re statistically very likely to end up making a profit over the long run when using this tool.

Maintaining Healthy Accounts

One important aspect of Matched Betting that we haven’t yet touched on is the risk of gubbing - i.e. being restricted or banned from taking up promotions by bookies.

Bookies are constantly on the lookout for signs of customers engaged in Matched Betting, or any other technique that shifts the odds in your favour.

The key to making Matched Betting sustainable is to take some precautions in your approach to your betting. A few of the most important are as follows:

• Place ‘mug bets’. By this, we mean place a few bets here and there that don’t relate to a promotion. You should of course match those bets as normal - otherwise you’re just risking your money for no reason - but as you won’t be taking advantage of an offer, this won’t look suspicious to a bookie.

• Bet on major events. As far as possible, confine your betting activity to major sporting events that attract a lot of attention, such as Premier League football matches and British horse races. Betting on obscure foreign football leagues or, say, Japanese horse racing is relatively unusual for British punters - and so it’s best avoided by matched bettors, no matter how tempting the odds might be.

• Avoid arbitrage betting. This means betting on selections where the back odds are higher than the lay odds (price boosts being an exception to this). This is a surefire way to get yourself gubbed, as bookies will quickly spot anyone with a pattern of betting on over-valued selections.

• Limit withdrawals. If you can afford to, it’s best to avoid withdrawing all your money from a bookie as soon as a bet has paid out. Of course, this doesn’t mean never withdrawing at all - just try to limit your withdrawals to when you actually need to make them. 
  
  Plus, if your bankroll allows, leaving some money in your bookie accounts makes things much speedier when it comes to completing future offers anyway.

Summary

It’s understandable to feel a bit lost when you near the end of the sign up offers, but there’s no need to worry! There’s tons of value to be had from reload offers, and Outplayed’s dedicated tools and guides are here to take you through them all.

Whether you stick to Bet & Get offers, branch out into racing refunds, or dive all the way into Lucky 15s and 2UPs, you’ll find there’s plenty to do - and, more importantly, hundreds of pounds of profit to be made each month.

And if you’re new to Matched Betting and wondering how to get started - our free trial’s the quickest and easiest way to launch your new side hustle, with over £850 in profit to be made just from sign up offers!